According to a recent report, "2Q 2011 Threat Roundup", published by Trend Micro Inc., a global cloud security leader, the most dangerous threats to the computer world has been discussed. Cloud-computing-related data breaches as notably, the Epsilon breach was the most remarkable breach making headlines in April 2011, according to the report.
The e-mail system of Epsilon was hacked by cyber crooks providing them with an access over personal details of clients. The consequence of this incident exposed about 50 client's security and they were automatically at a target to major risk of data theft and spear-phishing attacks. As a result, Epsilon was triggered to issue a warning in the official site and provide a supporting tool to facilitate clients to determine if their details were among the so-called exposed or not.
Cyber crooks were however enthralled to use Epsilon's solution for their own advantage, especially as they found it profitable for exploiting over 2000 global clients.
Engineers at TrendLabsSM remained vigilant once the tool was released towards the presence of a web page spoofing that permits downloading of the Epsilon Secure Connect Tool. The forged tool detected as TROJ_MSPOSER.ASM provided cyber crooks the accessibility to steal personally identifiable information (PII) from compromised systems through a backdoor application, namely BKDR_MSPOSER.KAX.
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